diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 9fec1836057a..0e5eda068520 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
 struct epoll_filefd {
 	struct file *file;
 	int fd;
-};
+} __packed;
 
 /*
  * Structure used to track possible nested calls, for too deep recursions
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ struct nested_calls {
 /*
  * Each file descriptor added to the eventpoll interface will
  * have an entry of this type linked to the "rbr" RB tree.
+ * Avoid increasing the size of this struct, there can be many thousands
+ * of these on a server and we do not want this to take another cache line.
  */
 struct epitem {
 	/* RB tree node used to link this structure to the eventpoll RB tree */
@@ -1964,6 +1966,12 @@ static int __init eventpoll_init(void)
 	/* Initialize the structure used to perform file's f_op->poll() calls */
 	ep_nested_calls_init(&poll_readywalk_ncalls);
 
+	/*
+	 * We can have many thousands of epitems, so prevent this from
+	 * using an extra cache line on 64-bit (and smaller) CPUs
+	 */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(void *) <= 8 && sizeof(struct epitem) > 128);
+
 	/* Allocates slab cache used to allocate "struct epitem" items */
 	epi_cache = kmem_cache_create("eventpoll_epi", sizeof(struct epitem),
 			0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);